Money Matters: Coaching Your Way to Success
IN ONE-ON-ONE meetings with your team members you set goals, provide guidance and coach them to success, but who is coaching you?
by Stacey Soble
Shrewd Negotiations: Leases on Your Terms
BEFORE YOU SIGN on the dotted line, make sure you understand all the terms of your lease or you could be paying for that costly mistake for many years to come.
by Stacey Soble
Finding Financing: Alternatives to Traditional Bank Loans
OVER TIME, one of the biggest challenges facing small business owners, including salons, is the ability to borrow money, and that’s only gotten tougher in our current economy.
by Stacey Soble
Taxing Times: Ways to Save on Your Return
As we worked on this story, Larry Kopsa was working hard on tax returns for this year’s April 17 filing date, but he took a quick break to give us some eye-opening tips for owners.
by Stacey Soble
Enlightened Experience: An Owner’s Take on Retail
As the owner of Head Games salon in Portland, Maine, Alanna York always believed salons and stylists deserved more from the brands they’ve represented.
by Stacey Soble
Risky Business: Looking Into Liability Insurance
YOU’VE RISKED A LOT to build your business, but what are you doing to protect all that sweat equity? One careless mishap and your salon of cards could come tumbling down.
by Stacey Soble
Processing Fees: Accepting Credit Cards
ACCEPTING CREDIT CARDS is a necessary part of doing business, but the quality of service and your fees can vary depending on your vendor.
by Stacey Soble
Shelf Patrol: Inventory Management
HOW MUCH OF YOUR CASH is sitting on your shelves? How could you grow your business if you could free some of that investment, while still keeping your retail sales humming?
by Stacey Soble
Digging into Facebook Demographics
Linkup Marketing's Valorie Reavis helps you better understand your Facebook community by showing you how to decipher your demographics.
The One Minute Reprimand
Inspiring Champions' Lauren Gartland shows salon owners how to give employees a reprimand in less than a minute that delivers results.
by Stacey Soble
What Your Color Team Can Learn at the Paint Store
When a salon owner embraces her new neighboring paint store, she discovers a unique educational opportunity for her staff.
by Stacey Soble
The Dos and Don'ts of Online Booking
Online booking can be a big pressure relief to your front desk, but some owners are still hesitant to test those waters. MINDBODY's Meg McCall eases those fears with these great Dos and Don'ts about online booking.
by Meg McCall
Strategies' Incubator Day Two with SALON TODAY 200 Salon Owners!
Strategies' Incubator Day Two on Monday, March 19, 2012. SALON TODAY 200 salon owners returned for another business building day where they were taught how to improve Team Service in their salons and how to implement Team-Based Pay.
Neil Ducoff with Stacey Soble
After greeting salon owners with a Monday morning blog for three years, Strategies Founder Neil Ducoff talks about how he's going to be waking them up with words of wisdom in what promises to be another award-winning book.
by Stacey Soble
Salon Today 200 Members Attend Strategies' Incubator
It was a successful day today at Strategies' Incubator session for Salon Today 200 owners in Centerbrook, Connecticut. Read the story!
Wake Up!
A one on one interview with Neil Ducoff on his latest new book, Wake Up!, a collection of his blog posts full of use-em-now strategies for business success.
by Stacey Soble
Get Pinned!
Get ready to pin! Karie Bennett introduces you to Pinterest, the latest and great in social media and shows you how her salon is using it.